This immortal tale concerns the doomed love between a knight and a princess--one of the great romances of medieval literature, along with that of Lancelot and Guinevere. The heroic Tristan, nephew and champion of King Mark of Cornwall, journeys to Ireland to bring home his uncle's betrothed, the fai[...]

This is the most complete and beautiful version of Joseph Bedier's classic ever to appear in English. It includes Gaston Paris' original Preface, Bedier's historic essay "On the Nature of the Legend of Tristan and Iseult", and Vincent Nicolosi's Introduction, which sheds light on the tale's Celtic n[...]